spazlabz

So Friday afternoon I am trying to send some business related e mails to business partners in other countries while I am chatting with them on ICQ. And they are not receiving the e mails. This goes on for multiple attempts so I decide to do some test e mails and then call my ISPS... Good ole BellSouth.

Long story short... they are killing any e mails being sent out that contain adult URLs in them. Now here is the real bitch. The thing that makes this even more stupid then the obvious censorship issue. I CAN receive e mails with adult links in them... oh yeah, they don?t block that, but if I receive an e mail with an adult URL in it and I reply to it (without putting an adult URL in it) they will see the original instance and kill the e mail!!!!

During the phone call where I was more then a bit incredulous, they said about the only option they saw would be to upgrade to their business package which is about $60 more per month and the only thing is, that still wouldn't fix the problem. But they might be able to allow port 25 to be opened so I wouldn?t be forced to use their stupid SMTP in my outgoing!!

If you have BellSouth, you might want to do a few tests to make sure your e mails are actually going out because the only way to tell is to send a test to yourself with adult URLs in them and see if they make it to your inbox.


spaz